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But intervention must never
borrow
methods from those against whom it is undertaken.
For more than 20 years, the world’s major capitalist economies have been led to
borrow
heavily and unabashedly, in large by a new rule, adopted worldwide beginning in the 1970’s and 1980’s, that tied monetary policy to targets for price growth.
But the rule ultimately had the terrifying result of obliging countries to
borrow
from private banks at market prices to guarantee their treasuries’ integrity.
In order to stimulate productive bank credit – and boost the effectiveness of fiscal policy – governments should stop issuing bonds, and instead
borrow
from banks through loan contracts, often available at lower rates than bond yields.
Significantly, two proposals that were most likely to meet German opposition – Eurobonds to pool risk and the transformation of the European Stability Mechanism into a bank that could
borrow
from the European Central Bank – were removed from his draft memorandum to European leaders.
For that, Daoud has been saddled with a double fatwa: one from his “assassin brothers,” to
borrow
the Algerian-French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui’s phrase, and another from a handful of supposedly progressive and anti-racist French intellectuals who accused him of “recycling the most hackneyed clichés of Orientalism” when he urged Arab men to respect the dignity of women.
So does the ability of households to
borrow
and lend in order not to be forced to match income and expenditure every day, week, month, or year.
As more countries become wary of the BRI, they will
borrow
and import less from China.
In the “flat world” of globalization – to
borrow
Thomas Friedman’s powerful metaphor – it seems that Russia no longer has a place.
Sadly, to
borrow
a phrase from the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, that is like wishing that our cats could bark.
So China continues to run a giant trade surplus, and the US continues to spend and
borrow.
Greater financial regulation in the US means consumers will not be able to
borrow
so easily to rack up huge mortgage and credit card debt.
This is an enticing spread for currency speculators who
borrow
in dollars and circumvent China’s capital controls to buy renminbi assets.
Moreover, foreign investors remain reluctant to
borrow
from Chinese banks in renminbi, or to issue renminbi-denominated bonds in Shanghai.
Developing-country governments will be only too pleased to
borrow
without the pesky conditions that the World Bank and existing regional development banks typically attach to their loans.
Because North Korea does not repay loans, it cannot
borrow
money; because it reneges on deals, it drives away potential partners; and, because it aims for autarky, it cannot specialize or exploit its comparative advantages.
The S&P downgrade resulted in a “flight to quality,” meaning that investors bought US government debt – thus increasing its price and lowering the rate that the federal government pays to
borrow.
Its clients are the banks; it is a place where banks can go to
borrow
money when they really need to; and its functions are to support the banking sector so that banks can make their proper profits as they go about their proper business.
Countries like Russia, or Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand in East Asia, or Brazil and Peru in Latin America, were able to
borrow
on easy conditions in the mid-1990s, but then faced a panicked withdrawal of loans in the past two years.
And in many countries, the system of land registration and property rights needs to be formalized, so that individuals and companies gain equity against which they can
borrow
to invest in their businesses.
People in their twenties could
borrow
money to buy a house, start a family, and go on holiday, paying the money back when they are in their fifties and would much rather stay at home and enjoy their grandchildren.
The only practical implication of adding the renminbi to the SDR basket is that it now becomes a currency that countries can draw, along with the SDR’s other four constituent currencies, when they
borrow
from the IMF.
Dealing with life’s predicaments sometimes demands, to
borrow
the language of former UK Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong, that we are somewhat economical with the truth.
Ratings affect how much banks are willing to lend, and how much developing countries – and their citizens – must pay to
borrow.
This impedes their participation in the global economy by restricting their ability to buy goods and services, to
borrow
and save, or to invest in their future and that of their community and country.
A national investment bank would be capitalized by the government,
borrow
from the private sector, and invest in infrastructure, housing, and “greening” the economy.
Its current bailout schemes only help countries like Greece and Italy to
borrow
money cheaply in the face of prohibitively high market interest rates, while the schemes’ insistence on more budget-deficit reduction in these countries will reduce European purchasing power further.
It is true that the US Treasury’s ability to
borrow
will reach its legally authorized limit in early August.
Indeed, as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling neared, Henry Aaron, a distinguished senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, pointed out that the US Constitution requires the president “to spend what Congress has instructed him to spend, to raise only those taxes Congress has authorized him to impose, and to
borrow
no more than Congress authorizes.”
Excessively low interest rates have generated a mismatch between housing prices and the available supply, because they serve as hidden subsidies for those who can
borrow
– for example, the rich and SOEs – and thus stimulate demand for luxury property.
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